You do not care for my pursuit
but I am as determined as you are blind
I would wait four lustrums as Penelope did her King
in hope that my affections will one day rouse you
My love, I would follow you endlessly
I would scrape the world's edge if you so bid it
If it would prove my worth, I would do anything
Forsake all others, all for your sake

You are as a fairy - fair and sweet
But mischievous so, and so unkind
You dance through the gable
and skip through the brook
As of that in a fable, or amorous book
You trick your lovers, enthral them 'till
they are trapped within this web you spun
with meticulous effort

To see us squirm is your one true desire
Like the widow does her besotted prey
A temptress; she entices them 'till
they draw closer, and closer still
She beckons them with a siren's call
Then toys, and teases, and devours them whole
Her suitors can do naught but comply
Truly, they can deny her nothing

You bewitch us, my love,
like a doe-eyed nymphet
Until we are drooling like spaniels upon your lap,
only to look upon you with adoration in our gaze
Subservience in our veins, and obedience in our brains
We serve you and you alone
Your humble servants; wholly devoted
No question of loyalty within our minds

I am a romantic, but you care little for that
You'd much rather loathe instead of love
Be cruel instead of kind
You want not what others can give, but what they dare not provide
It is all but a game, with the players oblivious
Too encapsulated by this idyll
to notice they are in Hell

You are a child with my heart, and I know this well
Plucking on the strings like a harpsichord,
you play with my love in sadistic ways,
but I hold no desire to abscond from your side
You are my Venus, whom I worship with earnest
My soul; my light; the air that I breathe
You may not care for me, but still
like the moon does the sun, I will follow you

A/N

Who doesn't love a bit of unrequited highly toxic crushes? I know I do.

I attempted free verse again, and I think it worked quite well this time. I completely gave up with the last stanza though. I apologise for the mess.

References:
• Penelope - sometimes viewed as a symbol of dutifulness, Penelope is the wife of King Odysseus (the hero of Homer's The Odyssey) who remained faithful to him in his twenty years of absence
• Lustrums - a period of five years
• Widow - referring to a female Black Widow spider who will usually cannibalise the males she mates with
• Spaniels - inspired by the line of dialogue which Helena speaks in Act 2, Scene 1 of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' to Demetrius, whom she is infatuated with: "Use me but as your spaniel"
• Venus - the Roman Equivalent of Aphrodite; Goddess of love